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records, and ordnance survey memoirs. Another important
chapter explains the differences between the
various administrative divisions of Ireland, knowledge
of which is critical in tracking down all available
records on Irish ancestors. The Third Edition
includes a new chapter on “Irish Genealogy and the
Internet,” which discusses all the principal websites
for conducting Irish research online. Mitchell has
also totally overhauled and updated the book’s two
concluding chapters, which cover Ireland’s major genealogical
record offices and heritage centers. The
critical chapters furnish the addresses and phone
numbers, hours of operation, contact persons, and
major record holdings and databases of the organizations
that are central to Irish family history. Enriched
by the author’s experience as a professional geographer,
genealogical researcher, and director of an Irish
heritage center, the Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy is
an outstanding value!
Tracing Your Donegal
Ancestors—New Edition
By Helen Meehan & Godfrey
Duffy; 2008; Published
by and available from Flyleaf
Press, 4 Spencer Villas,
Glenageary, County Dublin,
Ireland. $23.00 U.S. includes
shipping ($24.00 Canadian).
ISBN: 978-0-9539974-9-7. See:
www.flyleaf.ie/donegal.htm.
Donegal families are an
interesting mix of native
Irish families and of Scots-
Irish who came to the county
from the 17th century. The county experienced a
high level of emigration both to North America and
also to Scotland and North of England. This new
and greatly expanded edition sets out the range of
Donegal genealogical sources available to the family
history researcher. It devotes a chapter to each source
type explaining what information each contains, and
where each record can be accessed. Common names
in the county include O’Neill, O’Donnell, Bonner,
Barr, Bradley, Duffy, Friel, Gormley, O’Kane, Gallagher,
Harkin, McBride, McCafferty, McDaid, Patton,
Morrissey, Ward, Sweeney. It is also one of the
counties which experienced a high level of emigration
to North America and elsewhere.
Irish Emigrants in North America
By David Dobson; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 120 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9976 ISBN:
9780806353937; $18.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Emigration from Ireland to
the Americas started in earnest
during the early 18th century.
In 1718 the first successful emigration
from Ireland to New
England occurred, laying the
foundation for the large-scale
settlement of colonial America by the “Scots-Irish.”
This work is the seventh installment (and the fourth
volume) in a series compiled by Mr. David Dobson
that documents the departure of thousands of individuals
who left Ireland for the promise of the New
World between roughly 1670 and 1830. As many as
half of the immigrants referred to here disembarked
at Canadian ports in Ontario, while most of the rest
entered North America through New York, New Jersey,
Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Part Seven is based mainly on archival sources in
Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, and
the U.S., together with contemporary newspapers and
journals, a few published records, and some gravestone
inscriptions from both sides of the Atlantic. In
the majority of cases, Mr. Dobson’s transcriptions provide
some or all of the following: name of passenger,
date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Ireland, reason
for emigration, and, sometimes, place of origin in
Ireland, place of disembarkation in the New World,
date of arrival, number of persons in the household,
and the source of the information. Here is an entry
that is typical of those found in the volume:
LITTLEWOOD, ANN, from Drummond, parish of
Tamlaght Finlaggan, emigrated from Londonderry to
St. John, New Brunswick, on the 196 ton brig Ambassador
in April 1834 [RIA].
Scots-Irish
Scots-Irish Links 1575-1725—Part Seven
By David Dobson; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 122 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com; CF9904
ISBN: 9780806353920; $18.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
During the 18th century, as many as 100,000 Scottish
Lowlanders relocated to the Plantation of Ulster
(Northern Ireland). Within a few generations, the
descendants of these Ulster Scots emigrated in substantial
numbers across the Atlantic, where, as the
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